Thursday, April 19, 2018

MNP Debt solutions ad

There was a comical ad running on ATV Live at 5 last week from MNP debt solutions. The close enough video is on YouTube



The commercial and YouTube claim that this is an Actual Client. I noticed comments are closed on the video, hmmm.

I found it amusing. I like how the heroine spoke of "unexpected bills" after a separation. Yes who knew that your husband had been paying the rent, power, cable, phone, cell phone, and internet all those years. I'd thought electricity was like sunshine, it was just something that we all get for free.

I couldn't help but notice heroine was well put together. Perhaps if she spent less on hair, makeup, and clothes she might not have ended up in such a financial bind.

Meh if she was so reliant upon her husbands paycheques then perhaps she might have acted differently to preserve the relationship and prevent it from failing. Oh well. She does come across as entitled an unlikeable in the video.

In the video she brags about being debt free now. Although she didn't actually say she paid off all her debts. I guess it's left as an exercise to the reader to determine how she became "debt free".

I suppose if you default on your debts via bankruptcy or proposal then you can say afterward that you are now "debt free", though it's nothing to be proud of. In a way it's, ahem, unfair to those who inherited a bad situation with debt due to the irresponsibility of another and made the sacrifice and effort to actually pay off their share of everything and become debt free through the honourable path.

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